Comment by Björn on "What are your views about working remotely in a startup? How do you manage your distributed tech team?"

I had some home office days. In january i will move back to my old home town, 180km distance to my current work place, so i will work remotly.

What I can say right now is this

Pros

No driving time
computer is 50% pax-deductible
Silence (I work in an open room together with marketing and support... it's annoying)
no pants everyday
toilet is almost everytime free

Cons

you get easly distracted
higher electricity bill
often calls from the work even if you are not working
you have to cook for yourself (okay, partly)
not so much social contact

That is just my experience and opinion. If you work from a cafee, or you have a wife at home which cooks for you your experience can differ from my.

But I am reallly looking forward to work from my home.

Eat Your Own Dogfood, I like that phrase!

It seems simple enough, one could probably setup an asterisks box to route phone calls from your office phone number to skype / mobile or some other VOIP device.

We will skype the most time at first, but we are looking for a ip telephone system, so that i can use my work number at home for better communication.

For connection to the firm intranet we use a simple vpn connection, so i am able to access all the relevant documents.

For tickets, work time and this stuff we use our own software (eat your own dog food). We develop erp systems and modified one software so we can track our working hours, the customer tickets and this stuff.

How is the project managed remotely, what kind of software do you / they use to keep track of everything and what processes are in place to keep communication with everyone else ?

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